Unnamed Tabloid Scrambles To Get Cryptozoology News

UPDATE: All mentions and images (even though they are all over the Internet) of the previously discussed tabloid have been removed due to a harsh “cease and desist” email received from the legal department of that tabloid.

In what seems like a flurry of elusive flattering emails to Cryptomundo a few days ago, and personally to me today, the tabloid just sent this my way:

“Please let me know if you are interested, I would love to discuss this with you!”

Hey, [deleted] makes lots of money off their “news,” so I naturally, out of curiosity, asked them, “For what fee?”

Their answer: “Well, we were thinking more along the lines of sending new traffic your way.”

Yeah, right. As if I would be seriously considering any alignment with them and all they promise is “traffic.” Yikes. They must take us for real fools.

My answer was to the point: “Never mind. Not interested. Need financial reinforcement for this, as the downside would be the loss of credibility in any association with [deleted]. Thank you, anyway.”

Of course, unknown to [deleted], at the same time they were emailing me, I knew they were doing the same thing to others. For example, here’s what I heard from someone else in the online cryptozoology field, who was asking me:

“Need some unofficial offline advice. I was approached today by the production manager at [deleted]. They are interested in my cryptozoology blog…and want to do a weekly syndication [of] some of this…in exchange for a byline. I wanted your opinions on…the reputation of this organization and their work/stories…[and] whether the trade of work for byline is usual.”

So, it appears that [deleted] is on a fishing trip, and they are out to “hook” a partner in the online cryptozoology community.

Do support my independence from the need to sell my work to the [deleted]; please keep this research going and save the museum…please…today

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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